... I tried the HP mininote and it is awful compared to the acer aspire. I got the mininote hoping the expresscard would save me time with data transfer but the first e.c. I bought didn't see the external drive I bought. The mininote's keyboard is horrid compared to the a.o.'s as they are like tiles and to hard to press down, not that they can't be pressed down but too hard for what a keyboard should be. The mininote is also ugly, it's a ugly silver-gold color. I bought a sticker for it to cover up the ugly shell but the sides and keyboard are still ugly. If you want more speed just wait for USB 3.0 or expresscard 2.0 to come out, I keep finding that expresscards are buggy and finnicky and can possibly ruin your internal and external drives if they are disconnected when in use. The mininote's screen is ugly no matter what resolution it's at, it has this flickering-like grainy look that reminds me of CRT's. The plastic covering over the screen is also ugly and makes the mininote appear to be cheap.

One more thing I utterly detest about this laptop is the ugly bright green-blue leds on the left and the bright blue led on the right which both face forward. They are always on except the blue one if your wi-fi is off I think and if the laptop is off of course they are off. Anyways those things make watching movies and just using the laptop a horrible nauseating experience as besides being ugly and a distraction, they remind me of nasty jelly-bellies and other jelly candies of the same color, EWWWWWWWW! Seriously. The lights are even on when the laptop is closed unless you turn the LT off completely. Another annoyance is that it wouldn't upgrade to SP3 if it wasn't connected to a power source (why?), I suppose this was to prevent bad installs, but the update feature has an automatic pause and recontinue feature so why doesn't it do this for the SP3 update? Also let's say you lost your power cord, so you have to wait for this till you buy or can borrow one? Absurd.

Pros: Great camera, great mic, decent speakers for the price. ...
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